Does my DAD seem AS to you?

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Pondering about why I have Asperger's I came to the conclusion that my dad also has it. Here is a list of why:

A.) When he was younger, he used to add up his daily transactions for his bank account in his head. THATS RIGHT, he didn't use pencil or paper and he didn't write anything down; he calculated everything in his head from memory right down to the decimal point(Represented as pennies).

B.) He got angry at me today because he told me that it was a waste for me to go out and buy a new pair of glasses(I'm 20 and I want the rimless kind). He said he has been wearing the same glasses since 6th grade(I'm not sure if he was being serious about this). Hes 60 years old now and he said he has had the exact same pair of glasses since 6th grade.

C.) He is a very singular minded person. When I was younger; he used to be obsessed with Soccer. he would coach our boys soccer team and he literally wouldn't care about anything else. He even just completely ignored what my mother had to say whenever he was doing a soccer project. Now hes into the Travel Business and into making cookies. Same thing had repeated itself over again; he usually spends 3-4 hours per night on the computer looking up travel information.

D.) He gets angry whenever I don't know a name of a tool or how to replace a simple maintenance work. He SCREAMED at me when I didn't understand a word he was saying that meant to stack the chairs upright. He expects everyone to understand exactly what he is saying even though I have never learned how to do those things. IE he expects people to think exactly the same way that he things.

E.) He works as a Financial Manager and he sets prices on automobile parts. He uses huge spreadsheets with lots of numbers and prices.

F.) He isn't very emotional at all.....in fact he sort of a you know what.

G.) Basically all he cares about is some random interest that doesn't even make logical sense sometimes. He use to collect old bikes(he bought about 20) and now we just have them stacked in our basement. He makes cookies for every event now......like 100-200 huge cookies.

I could probably list a lot more....but that should get the gist. Does that sound AS to you?

The only thing to offset it is that he is in no way scared of social situations. But I am thinking that he probably was when he was younger and his method of overcoming was to be very aggressive/prick so that he would hide behind that. That must be what he does right now.

could be AS, but could also be something else, you have to rule other things out--my friend who has a mild schizophrenia acts kid of like your dad

He definitely doesn't have schizophrenia.

He can hold a job(Hes a financial manager with a $130,000-$150,000 salary) and communicate with other people just fine; he is just very singular/narrow minded and only sticks to one activity.

Hes definitely not paranoid or hallucinates or anything of that nature.

I don't think schizophrenia and Asperger's have that much in common. I only say this because the Neuropsychiatric who I went to said that schizophrenia was a possibility. I just don't see how we could be categorized as:

"A person experiencing schizophrenia may demonstrate symptoms such as disorganized thinking, auditory hallucinations, and delusions. In severe cases, the person may be largely mute, remain motionless in bizarre postures, or exhibit purposeless agitation; these are signs of catatonia. The current classification of psychoses holds that symptoms need to have been present for at least one month in a period of at least six months of disturbed functioning. A schizophrenia-like psychosis of shorter duration is termed a schizophreniform disorder.[5] No one sign is diagnostic of schizophrenia, and all can occur in other medical and psychiatric conditions.[5]

Social isolation commonly occurs and may be due to a number of factors. Impairment in social cognition is associated with schizophrenia, as are the active symptoms of paranoia from delusions and hallucinations, and the negative symptoms of apathy and avolition. Many people diagnosed with schizophrenia avoid potentially stressful social situations that may exacerbate mental distress.[6]

Late adolescence and early adulthood are peak years for the onset of schizophrenia. These are critical periods in a young adult's social and vocational development, and they can be severely disrupted by disease onset. To minimize the impact of schizophrenia, much work has recently been done to identify and treat the prodromal (pre-onset) phase of the illness, which has been detected up to 30 months before the onset of symptoms, but may be present longer.[7] Those who go on to develop schizophrenia may experience the non-specific symptoms of social withdrawal, irritability and dysphoria in the prodromal period,[8] and transient or self-limiting psychotic symptoms in the prodromal phase before psychosis becomes apparent.[9]"

That doesn't in any way seem like how my dad acts.

Your father sounded very narrow minded. But that list isn't enough for me to even say he has it or not. There needs to be more.

I can put more up when I get the time.